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- ajac
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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I only have a ballpark figure since I replaced the cam belts on mine myself but I'd suggest at a good indy garage around the £750-£1.5k mark.
Prices will vary wildly and you'd get a more accurate idea from someone who's had to pay to have the belts replaced at an indy 4x4 garage... rather than at a dealership. I'm lucky enough in that I have the skills and tools to DIY.
You may get cheaper quotes if you shop around, but the replacement parts alone (fuel timing belt, main cam belt, auxiliary belt and associated tensioners) can vary between £250-£400 on average...once you add labour and anciliary charges, since it's a lengthy job, you can roughly gauge the overall price.
I'd suggest also replacing the main camshaft pulleys along with the main timing belt as being good, cautionary practise although not entirely necessary...additionally around £120 or so for both pulleys.
As a firm requirement at higher mileages, It's not a cheap undertaking...and at only around 40k miles I'd suggest you have a bit of time before you'd have to seriously consider having it done.
110k miles or 84 months (7 years) is the recommended replacement interval...I replaced my belts at 75k because mine is a 2017 model which had 1 or 2 gaps in it's service history before I bought it last year.
My only other bit of advice, service it regularly and often and it'll look after you...oil and filter changes every 5k miles. The 10k service interval recommended by Land Rover is a piece of nonsense...
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- MarkAlex
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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Ouch!
Although from a main dealer + the MOT, not far off the norm unfortunately... Indy 4x4 garages will be a shade cheaper, but not enough that your wallet won't have PTSD after paying for it
As for me, I'm this D5's final owner... unless it does the Land Rover thing and spontaneously explodes into a pile of bits, so warranties or service stamps in the logbook are entirely irrelevant. It's bought and paid for and it's highly unlikely it'll ever be sold on. (mind you, I said that about my D4).
With that in mind, I have a nice workshop full of tools, spare parts are relatively inexpensive so it'll be well pampered in my care since as a self confessed Discovery fan boy, I'm kinda fussy about keeping it working the way it's supposed to.
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- harrythespider
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- MarkAlex
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- ajac
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- Furnitureman
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
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Wow, that's a great price. If I had come across an indy close to me that would have done both belts for that price...considering the cost of parts alone...I'd have let them do mine instead of getting my hands dirty
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